SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- California is ordering immediate spillway inspections at about 70 aging dams that it believes might not be sound enough to protect downstream communities in a flood. Supervising ...

Next month three Marin Municipal Water District spillways will undergo an inspection to make sure they are safe in the wake of the Oroville Dam problems earlier this year. Last week the district hired ...

Nebraska's failed Spencer Dam (Photo: Nebraska Department of Natural Resources) Last Sunday, as National Dam Safety Awareness Day came and went, few Americans pondered a possible disaster looming in ...

After catastrophic flooding in 2017 destroyed the Oroville Dam spillways, engineers faced an impossible challenge - rebuild one of the world’s largest spillways before the next flood season. This is ...

BUTTE COUNTY (CBS13) - Oroville Dam is officially back open to the public two years after it was forced to close due to the failure of the dam's main and emergency spillways. People can now walk and ...

Torrential rain in the Midlands and North of England that saw half a month's rain fall in one day caused such volumes of water to pass through the spillway of the Toddbrook Reservoir dam, above the ...

Water levels surged across Pakistan's major rivers on Monday as heavy monsoon rains swelled flows and officials said upstream ...